Jono Bacon jas just launched Planet Advocacy and it seems like a good idea to me. It gathers RSS feeds from 5 Free and Open Source advocates that use their fame to better organise FOSS advocacy.

When I set up Planet Advocacy last night I was under the impression that there are a number of Open Source advocates who have blogs that I am unaware of and it would be useful to aggregate them. After doing a bit of hunting around earlier, it seems there really are not that many people blogging about advocacy. The odd thing is that there are plenty of people out there actually doing advocacy, it just seems they are not reporting it on their blogs. I really hope the planet can help push this.

ArchLinux 0.7.1 codename Noodle has been released today. here is the original post:

...and it only took a year. :)

Here it is, folks. All the Arch goodness you know and love, only half the fat. We've added some better hardware detection, stock initrd support for neat things like encrypted root filesystems, network profiles, and more little goodies here n' there. Thanks for the patience, everyone.

As always, read the docs before installing. You'll find ISO images in the usual location. Torrents too.

• It's very up to date. The latest kernel 2.6.15 has been added to the main repo less than a day after its official release
• It's a bit underground. I don't like things when they are too popular and that's why - but not only - I switched from Ubuntu to Arch
• It has a great package management tool. pacman is based off slackware's pkgtool but with added depency checking
• It has XFCE as its default window manager
• It's stable: my last installation from scratch was 6 months ago, and that's quite a milestone for me.
  

I've put a screenshot of my desktop as on today 01/01/2006. I'll try to automate that to have one taken and uploaded every month or week or something like that.

Eventhough I might come up with more in the next days, Here are my resolutions for 2006:

- see my friends Co and Mike and their son Mateo, and party heavily with them. period.
- stop buying magazines. With the internet and all the blogs I read around I should be able to get all the info I need fron online. That would save me some money.
- buy at least one BD / comic / manga per month, and review it here.
- get this first house buying thing sorted
- blog more

The site is finally a bit more colourful since tonight's update. The above banner use PNG transparency and is itself the background of the main table, located above the gradient, background of the page's body. Both files are PNG. This means that Internet Explorer users will have a horrible white background instead of the transparency. For the moment. I am not not bothered with it. Internet Explorer users are still more than 80% percent of the web population, but they should not be. Instead, they should click on the big red image in the left sidebar. It will take you to Firefox download page. Firefox is a free software that will enable you to be more efficient in your internet browsing. Trust me, Click and have a read around !

Still working quite a lot on the site.
I am looking for a simple way to manage my online pictures now. There seems to be a great deal of discussion on the drupal forums for the best module for photo albums betweem the 3 main contestants: gallery2 + module, acidfree and image.
acidfree sounded great at the start but only until I discovered that it doesn't support MySQL 3.X which is what my host still runs.
I'd like to avoid gallery2 as it is two heavy and powerful for the usage i would have.
I might consider rewriting the script that the previous site was using. I wrote it quite a while ago and was adapted to geeklog's API but i am sure it wouldn't take too long to migrate it to drupal.
tomorrow is another day, i m off to bed.

Right, I am happy with most of the phptemplate of the site now. I wrote it to replace the annoying div markups in the defailt phptemplate by table structures and it's way more organised now.
I will concentrate on the css exclusively from now on until i find something i don't like in the template as it is bw.
I like drupal more and more !

It still obvious, ... this site is powered by drupal. And if the deletion of the previous databasee (which happened yesterday, i'll come back on this, once i get over it !!!) did one good thing, it is that this site is now powered by drupal.
Very powerful and flexible, I think its best quality is the systemic tagging of every single (almost) html markup, which allows a complete control over the design through Cascading Syle Sheets.
Added the new template engine phptemplate, it is the best base for any website and can fairly easily become unrecognisable.
Another great and free tool